The position I took at the time was that we hadn't really examined any of the potential environmental consequences of introducing genetically modified organisms.

Michael Palin decided to give up on his considerable comedy talents to make those dreadfully tedious travel shows. Have you ever tried to watch one?

John Cleese

All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that 50 years ago there were no such thing as environmental policies.

David Attenborough

The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea.

Isak Dinesen

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

Gail Godwin

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Edward de Bono

I against my brother I and my brother against our cousin, my brother and our cousin against the neighbors all of us against the foreigner.

Arabic Proverb

Something was still there, that something that distinguishes an artist from a performer: the revealing of self. Here I be. Not for long, but here I be. In sensing her mortality, we sensed our own.

Studs Terkel

The victim mindset produces a delusion of fault

Steve Maraboli

Every man with a little leisure and enough money for railway tickets, every man, indeed, who knows how to read, has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

Aldous Huxley

A great deal of laziness of mind is called liberty of opinion.

Source Unknown

It is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is concerned with the behavior of metal or energy. It depends on what the fashion is. Now today it's energy. It's the same soul behind it. The same soul, you see.

Josef Albers

These days, our senses are bombarded with aggression. We are constantly confronted with global images of unending, escalating war and violence.

Margaret J. Wheatley